Dr. Dawson’s research interests include how changes to the either side of “energy balance” affect health and body composition, in particular single feeding, shifts in macronutrient content away from carbohydrates as a main source of calories, and interventions that foment changes in metabolism, as well as statistical methodologies for genetic assays, particularly microarray and next-generation sequencing technologies. His advisors are David B. Allison, PhD, director of the Office of Energetics, and Nianju Liu, PhD, associate professor with the Department of Biostatistics

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